thermalcore
New Member
I got a 30 gallon tank for Christmas from my parents as watching fish swim has always seemed to relax me. I went to my local pet store & purchased:
Crushed Coral Bedding
Test Kit
Salt
Bottom Filter
Syphon Vaccumm
Salt Content Test
Chlorine Remover
& a few other things that the pet store employee said I'd need. All total I spent around $250. I returned 24 hours later & dispite my wanting 5 of these little white fish that seemed to be swimming in a school he recommended that I only go with 2 because 5 would be an over-kill. Naturally I listened being that I've never had a salt water tank before & my track record with fresh water fish is a bit depressing to say the least. I had printed out a sheet of what I could expect from my tank during the first 30+ days of the cycling that I'd read about & did everything the web sites had said to do. It's been 15 days since I bought the fish & according to my chart the Nitrite levels should be reaching their peak yet when I do the tests I have absolutely none. According to this chart I'm where I should have been on day 3 which is leaving me to believe that my local pet store employee knows alot less then he's pretending he does. Needless to say I plan to go back to the pet store here in the next few days & purchase 2 - 3 more of the little white break-in fish to hopefully get the cycling back up to speed.
The reason that I'm bothering all of you fine people is that I know what my local fish retailer says I should be doing after the cycling but I'd really like to get some feedback from outside sources. I want living plants & the most colorful fish I can find. (The more the fish swim around rather then just float, the better) Just browsing this site I've found the Mandarin in the Gobies & the Valentini in the Pufferfish sections to be very appealing to me. I've never delt with more then 2 or 3 fish at a time so I don't want to get fish that are going to have conflicts with one another & I'd rather not get a fish that's going to bully the others around the tank. I'd like to get some living coral (the moving kind) or anything that's going to liven the tank up... Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Crushed Coral Bedding
Test Kit
Salt
Bottom Filter
Syphon Vaccumm
Salt Content Test
Chlorine Remover
& a few other things that the pet store employee said I'd need. All total I spent around $250. I returned 24 hours later & dispite my wanting 5 of these little white fish that seemed to be swimming in a school he recommended that I only go with 2 because 5 would be an over-kill. Naturally I listened being that I've never had a salt water tank before & my track record with fresh water fish is a bit depressing to say the least. I had printed out a sheet of what I could expect from my tank during the first 30+ days of the cycling that I'd read about & did everything the web sites had said to do. It's been 15 days since I bought the fish & according to my chart the Nitrite levels should be reaching their peak yet when I do the tests I have absolutely none. According to this chart I'm where I should have been on day 3 which is leaving me to believe that my local pet store employee knows alot less then he's pretending he does. Needless to say I plan to go back to the pet store here in the next few days & purchase 2 - 3 more of the little white break-in fish to hopefully get the cycling back up to speed.
The reason that I'm bothering all of you fine people is that I know what my local fish retailer says I should be doing after the cycling but I'd really like to get some feedback from outside sources. I want living plants & the most colorful fish I can find. (The more the fish swim around rather then just float, the better) Just browsing this site I've found the Mandarin in the Gobies & the Valentini in the Pufferfish sections to be very appealing to me. I've never delt with more then 2 or 3 fish at a time so I don't want to get fish that are going to have conflicts with one another & I'd rather not get a fish that's going to bully the others around the tank. I'd like to get some living coral (the moving kind) or anything that's going to liven the tank up... Any input would be greatly appreciated.
